From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EiBk0-00004K-M6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2005 14:18:25 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jB2EHh2C005472; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 14:17:43 GMT Received: from gw02.mail.saunalahti.fi (gw02.mail.saunalahti.fi [195.197.172.116]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jB2EFYOj014663 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 14:15:34 GMT Received: from [192.168.150.87] (YYYMMMCCII.dsl.saunalahti.fi [85.76.10.103]) by gw02.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD634D9B04 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:15:32 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <43905702.3060308@saunalahti.fi> Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 16:15:30 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?UGV0dGVyaSBSw6R0eQ==?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051028) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] contents of /dev after initial installation References: <1133490923.15611.31.camel@sputnik886.ruz-net> In-Reply-To: <1133490923.15611.31.camel@sputnik886.ruz-net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 OpenPGP: id=8182B0B4; url=http://users.tkk.fi/~praty/public.asc Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig177D160DD1ABFDF6E63C7501" X-Archives-Salt: 6299460f-3aab-4a9f-a107-f31c824572c4 X-Archives-Hash: 42096a5066609e4eae6f8fc1c8a0e309 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig177D160DD1ABFDF6E63C7501 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Matthias Langer wrote: > revealed that there are in fact hundrets of premade device nodes in the /dev directory. > And this is not only true for the box where i discovered this, which was brought up from a > 2004.x cd, but also true for the box where i just installed gentoo from 2005.1-r1. > > Is there any reason for this ? > > Matthias > > # UDEV OPTION: # Set to "yes" if you want to save /dev to a tarball on shutdown # and restore it on startup. This is useful if you have a lot of # custom device nodes that udev does not handle/know about. RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no" Do you have this set to yes in /etc/conf.d/rc ? Regards, Petteri --------------enig177D160DD1ABFDF6E63C7501 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDkFcEcxLzpIGCsLQRAs6TAJ0f9Ud5RNYaLjUoS1oRzGkb/leIPwCggtfA TxeQgE0P9e/tLh9K37Kq5r8= =pQqC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig177D160DD1ABFDF6E63C7501-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list